Communities of Complicity: Everyday Ethics in Rural China 0857458906, 9780857458902

Table of contents :
A remote place from three angles --
Gabled roofs and concrete ceilings --
Work through the food basket --
Channelling along a centring path --
The embarrassment of Li --
Gambling and the moving boundaries of social heat --
Face projects in rural construction --
Everyday ethics, cultural intimacy, and irony

Polecaj historie

Communities of Complicity: Everyday Ethics in Rural China 9780857458919

Everyday life in contemporary rural China is characterized by an increased sense of moral challenge and uncertainty. Ord

165 73 4MB Read more

Building Inclusive Communities in Rural Canada 9781772126686

This collection challenges misconceptions that rural Canada is a bastion of intolerance. While examining the extent and

189 95 9MB Read more

The Israeli Radical Left: An Ethics of Complicity 9780812295351

Fiona Wright traces the ethics and politics of radical Jewish Israeli leftwing activists who challenge the violence perp

187 95 1MB Read more

Rural Informatization in China 9780821380208, 0821380206

"China's recent economic growth has expanded industrialization and urbanization, upgraded consumption, increas

408 119 2MB Read more

The Production of Everyday Life in Eco-Conscious Households: Compromise, Conflict, Complicity 9781529211481

Based on qualitative interviews with sustainability-oriented parents of young children, this book describes what happens

171 60 12MB Read more

A Study of Suicide in Rural China 9811956995, 9789811956997

This book identifies and analyzes the significant regional differences in suicide rates of various age groups and differ

195 93 2MB Read more

The Development of Rural Finance in China 9789814332071, 9789814332088

China's Three Rural Issues -rural areas, agriculture, and farmers - have been the core concerns of the Chinese gove

169 83 20MB Read more

Access to Justice in Rural Communities: Global Perspectives 1509951644, 9781509951642

This book offers insight on access to justice from rural areas in internationally comparable contexts to highlight the d

263 110 6MB Read more

Practicing Care in Rural Congregations and Communities 978-0800699543

Pastoral care in rural communities is different from care in other locales. Despite these differences, rural churches an

494 20 1MB Read more

Everyday Modernity in China 0295986026, 9780295986029

Is modernity in non-Western societies always an "alternative" modernity, a derivative copy of an "origina

1,067 103 1MB Read more